Mandrill for outgoing mail in a mail client

Question

I'm using Mandrill for my transaction email needs and it works great. Unfortunately very often when I send emails via my email client the emails go to the recipients spam folder.

Is there a way to use Mandrill for outgoing emails via a mail client (such as Apple Mail or Thunderbird)?

Answer 1

You can use the Mandrill's Outgoing Server (SMTP) Setting in the MailClient of your choice.

SMTP Settings

• Outgoing Server: smtp.mandrillapp.com

• Outgoing Server Port: 587

• Auth Required: True
• TLS: True
• Username: complete email-id

Changing the MailClient is not probably going to mark your mails as legitimate.

There are multiple reasons for mail going to spam folder of recipient like:

• Mandrill's IP address got blacklisted in recipient's SMTP (MX) server.
• Your mail contains some links or content which is recognized as suspicious and hence recipient marks such mails as spam.

In short, mail getting marked as spam depends upon:

• Sender SMTP server's reputation.
• Sender's mail content.
• Receiving SMTP (MX) (i.e recipient's) server business logic for mail classification.